Daily Doodles- Day 144- 08/09/24

Daily Doodles- Day 176- 08/10/24

Furbeeza- Elloeeza! I'm trying to come up with funny-sounding names for these characters. They live in a world where 'Feffella' is seen as an elegant name for your girlchild.

I won't say who she is quite yet, because I have to flesh her out some more, but she's going to be kind of crazy.

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Daily Doodles- Day 74- 28/06/24

A combination of scribble art and character drawing! I was watching Peter Draws on YouTube and decided to try something inspired by his doodle art.

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Daily Doodles- Day 118- 11/08/24

Drew one of my OCs from my story idea that was previously called the K.I.D.S. I'm thinking of calling it the Homework Club now. It's still going to be a secret agent type story, but I read the 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' last year and was inspired.

This is Adana btw. She's a 12 year old, first year secondary/high schooler in Trinidad.

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Daily Doodles- Day 91- 15/07/24

Continued with the coloured pencils and drew a simple dress with some flowers. 🌺🌺🌺

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Daily Doodles- Day 131- 27/08/24

One of my oldest OCs drawn in the original style! Her name is Sammy and I used to draw comics all about her world!

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Daily Doodles- Day196- 28/10/24

I was browsing Pinterest and I found this beautiful pen drawing WIP by visothkakvei. I was particularly interested in the flower and decided to doodle my own version in pencil.

Well, the doodle turned into a fully rendered piece and I loved it so much that I went on to make more pencil artworks and I'm turning them into a sticker set to sell in my shop and at art markets next year!

It was a great art week!

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Daily Doodles- Day 92- 17/07/24

I was trying to draw an OC, but this looks nothing like her 🥲

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Before I log out I will say that of course the sexist ideas in the church don’t come from nowhere. They come from Satan trying to poison the body of God duh

Hand Sewn Three-Tiered Maxi Skirt- Part 2

Part 1 | Here | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

So this took so much longer than expected because Mistakes started happening 🥲

So, I finished sewing the waistband and it was perfect! Then I started with the two tier-one panels next.

I drew on the seam allowance to use as guidelines because I can't sew straight to save my life.

I sewed the two panels together to make one long panel and I tried to iron the seam allowance to make it easier to fold.

😬😬😬🙃🙃🙃🫣🫣🫣

Unfortunately, my fabric is polyester and my iron was on the cotton setting. It got shrunk and burned and I couldn't salvage it.

Thankfully, I was able to buy more fabric after work the next day! I cut out the tier-one panels again and securely pinned down the seams so I could sew them. I folded them in half and sewed them to each other with a sitch I don't know the name of, but kinda looks like a blanket stitch at first glance.

Here comes the incredibly hard part: pinning the tier to the waistband.

I confused myself for a while and I wasn't sure which side I was supposed to pin it on 🥲 It took me two days to figure out 🥲🥲🥲

I also had trouble lining everything up and kept pinning the tier too far away from the stitching of the waistband. I finally figured it all out though and got to sewing.

I sewed right next to the stitching of the waistband so it looks flush. That's two, more or less neat rows of running back stitches!

Here's the other side, showing the gathering.

Here's how perfect the front looks! You can't tell that I struggled with this at all!

And here's the seam allowance that joins the two panels again. I thought it would look better smaller, so I undid the stitches, cut the seam allowance in half, folded it in half and sewed it all together again.

I tried to do the same with the seam allowance between the waistband and tier, but... 😬😬😬🫣🫣🫣

I cut them a bit too short... among other things. Instead, I'm going to cut a strip of fabric and sandwich the seam allowance between it.

It was a good thing after all that I had to buy that extra fabric!

It’s absolutely WILD to me that people can witness actual literal miracles and tell me God doesn’t exist.

My friend needed surgery and she was terrified. There was a good chance she was going to lose her foot. And despite not being any form of Christian she asked me to pray for her because she was so scared. So I prayed for her. I got hundreds of other Catholics to pray for her. And on the morning of her surgery, the doctors told her the problem was gone. They didn’t need to go forward with the surgery. Her foot was fine. She was healed.

And to this day, she tells me that the Church takes good people and turns them into bad people. Fills their heads with lies.

My sister, those “bad people” are the ones who prayed for your healing. Which you received. Because you asked for it. You had one moment of faith and it saved you. You saw it. Witnessed it. Lived it. Blessed because of it. That wasn’t a lie.

And I’ve seen behavior like this more often than I’d like to admit.

So now when someone says “why didn’t God do X?” My response is “would it have changed your mind?”